Making wireless network testing more efficient. Save time, test more, get to market faster.
Operating a wireless networking lab is not easy.
Complex Test Setup
It can take hours to reconfigure RF and optical signals for a single test. Changes to the test environment can interrupt testing in progress and require recalibration to ensure reproducibility.
Poor Test Coverage
With new network vendors, architectures, frequencies and features, network testing requirements are increasing and growing more complex. With manual testing procedures, only simple test cases can be performed.
Excessive Labour
Connection and disconnection cycles introduce excessive wear and tear on RF connectors causing signal degradation and leakage. Expensive cables will need to be replaced often.
LAMTA can help
LAMTA is an operating system platform for communication service provider (CSP) labs that automates tedious manual processes, increases test coverage, and optimizes lab resources. LAMTA helps orchestrate people and RF equipment assets and automates complex tests to enable zero-touch end-to-end (E2E) testing for functionality and performance.
Using LAMTA, lab operators can:
- Configure the lab for tests in a fraction of the time, virtually eliminating setup, teardown and calibration times.
- Increase test coverage through software control of multiple testing elements simultaneously.
- Organize and optimize lab expensive and limited lab resources, including both people and equipment.
To accomplish this, LAMTA can control a number of different types of testing equipment from a variety of vendors. This ranges from the user equipment (ie. smartphones) through RF signal distribution and attenuation control to Radio Access Network (RAN) elements and optical links. With this equipment, LAMTA can reproduce more sophisticated real-world scenarios in the lab in less time.
Features
Graphical Dashboard
A graphical view of your lab resources and connections. Operating the lab is easier with an easy-to-use visual of how everything is connected.
Resource Management
Create, configure and manage various testing resources in the lab, including RF and optical signal control equipment, radio sources, UE and more.
Multi-vendor support
Connect and manage RF control equipment, optical switches, network impairment emulators and more from a variety of supported vendors.
Wireless and optical network testing
Use for any optical or wireless testing independent of air interface and frequency band.Remote testing access
Setup and execute tests from anywhere over a secure browser session.
Resource assignment
Effectively share lab resources among multiple testers to avoid test interruptions.
Optional Features
UE Control
Control and observe handover/roaming processes in Android UEs via screen mirroring using LAMTA.
RF Monitor
Scan for and identify sources of RF interference before they impact test results.
Advanced Mobility
Automate and repeat complex handover, roaming and cell edge tests with MIMO and Carrier Aggregation.
High Availability Server
Redundant platform server for system uptime assurance when testing is critical.
NE Control
Modify accessible NE parameters via TR.069 or custom OSS interface to enable full end-to-end system testing.
RF Signal and Attenuation Control
Use the web-based GUI to route and control RF signals individually or together to create sophisticated handover and cell edge testing scenarios.
Network Impairment Control
Operate the Teledyne E100 Chimera network impairment emulator through the LAMTA UI. Simulate real-world network conditions in the lab.
Optical Switch Control
Reroute optical signals between various network elements to quickly change network topology or create different test cases.
E2E Scripting
Create, execute and manage test cases that involve multiple pieces of test equipment from the LAMTA user interface.
Resource Reservation / Calendar
Reserve specific lab resources for defined time periods and use Calendar view to show what resources are available and when.
Benefits
Set up tests in minutes with no manual cable patching or equipment setup
Reduce equipment needed at each individual test station, such as attenuators or PCs
Efficiently share limited and expensive test resources among testers
Enable “lights out lab” – testing from anywhere
Software controlled E2E test cases such as regression, handover and roaming including MIMO and Carrier Aggregation
Repeat tests hundreds or thousands of times as needed (*)
(*) with Advanced Mobility feature
System Architecture
LAMTA is a scalable solution that enables users to test wireless network functionality and performance by automatically configuring and controlling various network elements (RF signal routing and attenuation, UE and RAN). LAMTA can also be used to set up and automate advanced mobility scenarios such as handover and roaming for multiple frequency bands, RATs, MIMO and Carrier Aggregation and site configurations, including MIMO and Carrier Aggregation.
LAMTA Products
RF Test Position
A self-contained orchestration solution to help reduce equipment space and cost, improve test efficiency, and enable more sophisticated test case scenarios such as MIMO and Carrier Aggregation.
RF Test System
An orchestration system for a small-mid sized RF lab supporting up to (8) eight RF inputs and (8) eight RF test stations.
LAMTA RF Monitor
Introducing a cost-effective way to monitor the RF environment in the lab or in the field. LAMTA RF Monitor provides the capability to directly scan the RF environment and quickly see the results using LAMTA software.
